Culture Club

Boy George was both worshipped and loathe,a curiosity during the begining of the 1980s and a tragedy at the close of the decade.I appreciated boy Georges talent with every album released.Culture Clubs music held together superbly until the media's love affair started to weakened.Boy george and his band mates gave great albums during the 1980s,their first album was born out of dubs/white soul and reggae-influences(Malcolm McLaren tried to ride on cultures clubs popularity of the time with a quote (''i made Boy George what he is today''),Afterwards, Boy George began a relationship with drugs,a relationship more deadly than he ever had before,drugs now took front and centre and lead to his music career taking a backseat.Ultimately Culture Club faded from the public eye and the public's heart.Boy George now looking gaunt and his voice weaker,Culture club was no more,one last album during the 80s and boy george faded into the light.Boy george tried a come back with a new style of music during the late 1980s,house music/new jack swing but seriously ran out of ideas and had only minor hits.As the 1980s came to close boy george became a lesser known cult hero.Songs like ''Keep Me In Mind'' ''To Be Reborn'' ''Kipsy'' and ''Don't Cry'' from the High Hat and Sold albums reflect some of the very best and overlooked post Culture Club songs he ever has created during his time with ''culture club''......

it was unenviable for the end to come for Culture Club with Boy Georges drug problems,band member confrontations,bad choices in single releases and a change in music producers/production also add to that Boy George not at his writing peak

Boy George was a fixation in my early teens - like a living puppet among teenage idols of that time, I took notice by listening to Culture Club. I remember that charming headline in newsweek 'Britain Rocks America Again'... with Ann Lennox and Boy George posing so effectively. Culture Club for all that's worth about their music, the group gave two fine pop-albums - 'Kissing To Be Clever' and 'Colour By Numbers'. While the first one combined dub effects over funk and reggae-spiced music (the entire affair is somewhat reminiscent of Bow Wow Wow/Malcolm McLaren's pop-demonstration), the second effort took more of a pop course and earned the group a number of deserved hits - among them 'Karma Chameleon' seems to be the best-remembered ever. Afterwards, Boy George ran into serious drug problems, the group seriously ran out of ideas and as the 80s progressed none of them offered any considerable developments - Boy George continued his carreer solo. 'To Be Reborn' reflects some of the Culture Club's charm although 'Sold' is just a number in a vacuum of albums that circled around in 1987-88...